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THE GRAND OLD PARTY. 
II 








IT IS TRUE TO THE FLAG. 



REPUBLICAN PROMISES PERFORMED. 



In Nine Months the Republican Congress has Re- 
deemed All Its Pledges. 



a record quite unparalleled. 



THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS SAVED BY ECONOMICAL 
ADMINISTRATION. 



AND A RISE IN AGRICULTURAL VALUES OF AT LEAST 

ONE THOUSAND MILLIONS BROUGHT ABOUT 

BY WISE LEGISLATION. 

The national elections about to take place are for mem- 
bers of the Fifty-second Congress. This Congress will 
not be erected until March 4, 1892, and will assemble in its 
first regular session in the succeeding December. The 
present Congress has been in session but nine months, and 
its Republican majority appeals to the people for a renewal 
of their confidence upon a record still incomplete. It 
comes before the country, however, with this assurance : 
that if the people really want what they demand, and if 
they believe in a party that keeps its promises, they must 
return the Republican party to power in this election. 

Indirectly the Administration which was chosen in 1S8S 
is also before the people for a sign of their approval, and 
it, too, enjoys a similar confidence. President Harrison 
has taken the people at their word. He has assumed that 
by electing him to the Chief Magistracy they meant to have 
him carry out the platform upon which he was presented for 
their suffrages. He has acted on this safe assumption. 
All the resources of his great office have been employed to 
earn* out the public will as it was expressed in his election. 
In his recommendations to Congress and in the character 
and purpose of his executive acts he has been moved by 
the spirit of the people as it was displayed in the majorities 
cast in November, 1888. 



NOTABLE REFORM IN ADMINISTRATION. 



Economy, efficiency and good sense have guided the 
Administration in all its Departments. The Samoan con- 
troversy has been honorably settled in conformity with 
American demands ; closer relations have been cultivated 
with our South American neighbors ; the Navy is being 
rapidly rebuilt with ships than which there are no finer in 



the world ; harbor fortifications and coast defences are be- 
ing quickly constructed ; numerous military reforms have 
been accomplished ; the postal service has been purified of 
Democratic abuses and replaced upon its former efficient 
standing; the Indian service has been greatly impr<>\ 
and is moving rapidly towards the destruction of the reser- 
vation system and towards the introduction of a real civiliza- 
tion among the red people ; the crazy and seemingly 
malignant policy of the Democracy towards miners and 
settlers on the public lands has been overturned, while in 
financial administration, reforms of the greatest importance 
have been perfected. An increase in internal revenue col- 
lections of $7,ooo,coo a year may be credited to Republican 
honesty and efficiency, and an actual saving of more than 
$32,000,000 to the Government has been made by the 
Treasury's amazingly low purchases of bonds. But a 1 
and beyond all this, the rise ill the values of 

American farm crops, resulting from tariff 
and silver legislation, is a grand total neatly 
in excess of one thousand millions of dollars. 

Let Democratic orators explain away these facts if they can. 
The Republican party is cheerful in the belief that they are 
the kind of facts which the people do not wish explained 
away. The Democracy's capital offense is that it did noth- 
ing to make them, but everything it could to prevent them. 
It can only add to its offense by seeking to explain them 
away or to dwarf their vast value. 

The National platform upon which this Republican Con- 
and which it was therefore commissioned 
by the people to execute, declared in favor of these 
reforms : 

1st. A Federal Election Law. 
2nd. Tariff Revision in Conformity with 
the Policy of Protection. 
3rd. The Restoration of Silver to its Money 

Uses. 

4th. Just Pension Legislation. 

5th. The Revival of the American 3ler- 
chant Marine. 

6th. The Exclusion of Contract Labor and 
all other Forms of Cheap ami Degraded 
Labor. 

7th. The Admission of such Territories a^ 
are Pit for the Duties of Statehood. 

8th. The Revival of the Navy and Harbor 
Fortifications. 

Oth. Cheap Letter Postage. 

This was the wise and beneficent programme which the 
people directed President Harrison and the Republican 
Fifty-first Congress to put into effect. Let us see what has 
been accomplished in carrying out the people's will. 



DEMOCRATIC OBSTRUCTIONS. 



Shall Congress be an Orderly, Deliberative Assem- 
bly or a Lawless Mob? 



HOW THE DEMOCRATS CONSPIRED TO PREVENT ALL REPUB- 
LICAN LEGISLATION, AND HOW THEY WERE DE- 
FEATED BY COMMON SENSE AND COURAGE. 

At the very beginning of the session the Democrats 
announced their unpatriotic intention of preventing any 
legislation whatever in the direction of these reforms. 
Their purpose and the means they took to accomplish it 
were equally shameful. A Republican Congress was on 
trial ; it had but a few months of effort before the country 
would again be in the throes of a Congressional election, 
and the Democrats boldly, openly and with reckless inso- 
lence, declared that these few months should be barren of 
good works ; that the Republicans should be compelled to 
go to the country on an empty record. This, of course, 
would involve the people in a direct loss of at least 
$5,000,000, and would check or kill legislation most pro- 
foundly needed. But such considerations did not interest 
the Democratic leaders. 

Their scheme was simple. It consisted merely in the 
interruption of all business with motions to adjourn ; to 
recommit ; to amend, strike out, and insert — all frivolous 
in purport and insincere in motive, but most effective in the 
consumption of time ; and when these devices failed to 
bury a given measure, they proposed to sit in their seats 
silently during a roll-call, not responding to their names. 
This would almost certainly leave the record apparently 
showing that the House was without a quorum. 



HOW THE CONSPIRATORS WERE BEATEN. 

Speaker Reed had scarcely taken his seat before these 
contemptible tactics began, and when the House settled 
down to business, they were adopted in full force by the 
Democratic side. But they did not dismay the Speaker. 
He declined to entertain frivolous and obstructive motions, 
and he held that no member could remain within the 
Speaker's vision and declare himself present or absent ac- 
cording to the partisan ends he wished to serve. In other 
words, no member could deny his presence in order to 
break a quorum, and then affirm his presence to revive the 
quorum, being all the while, as a matter of fact, actually 
present in the House. It is for maintaining against Demo- 
cratic wails, howls, rage, violence and vituperation, these 
simple propositions, so clear in common sense and so just 
in common honesty, that the Speaker is denounced by our 
friends, the enemy, as a tyrant and a Czar. His only 
offense was that he declined to let them lie themselves out 
of sight when they wanted to prevent the passage of meas- 
ures which they did not have the voting strength to defeat. 

Mr. Reed's decisions were finally incorporated into the 
Rules of the House, since which time the public business 
has gone forward in an orderly manner. 



GOOD RULES MUST NOT BE PROSTITUTED TO BAD ENDS. 

(From a decision of Speaker Reed refusing to entertain a dilatory 
motion.) 

There is no possible way by which the orderly methods of parlia- 
mentary procedure can be used to stop legislation. The object of a 



parliamentary body is action, and not stoppage of action. Hence, if 
any member or set of members undertakes to oppose the orderly pro- 
gress of business, even by the use of the ordinarily recognized par- 
liamentary motions, it is the right of the majority to refuse to have 
those motions entertained, and to cause the public business to 
proceed. 

LET THE JOURNAL TELL THE TRUTH. 

(From the speech of the Hon. Wm, McKinley, Jan. 31.) 

Now, Mr. Speaker, what is this question ? We are contending that 
members who sit in their seats in this Hall shall be counted as pres- 
ent, because they are present. They want the Journal to declare a lie; 
we want the Journal to declare the truth. Let us be honest with 
each other and with the country; let us defeat bills in a constitu- 
tional way or not at all ; give freedom of debate, opportunity of 
amendment, the yea-and-nay vote, and we will preserve our 
self-respect, give force to the Constitution, and serve the people 
whose trusts we hold. The position of t li «* gentlemen on tne 

other side means that they will either ruin or role, al- 
though they arc ill the minority. W't- insist that whih- 

we ar<- In the majority they shall <lo neither* 



DOES THE CONSTITUTION COMMIT SUICIDE? 

(From a speech of the Hon. Bcnj. Butterworth.) 

After quoting that clause of the Constitution which ; 
rides that each House "may compel the attendano 

absent members," Mr. Butterworth continued : 

Ipel them to attend— for what? To leave the House in pre- 

the same 1 re 1 hey were- brought in— a condition 

which rendered it dc tnem In to change and im| 

a is author:- liable US to go through the 

faree of bringing in the absentees and Lean had been 

it while under the Constitution lie is actually 

at to make a quorum to do bu 

ipt is made to do the thing whieh required hif heat 

Once, by merely closing his mouth, b ItTUCtiveiy absent? 



MR. SPRINGER SUSTAINS SPEAKER REED. 

In the Foitv-six( Mr. Tucki brought 

in a rule precisely similar to the decision of Speak- 
In supporting Mr. Tucker, the Hon. W. M. Springer, who 
has been in this Congress the leading Democratic obstruc- 
tionist, and the sturdiest assailant of the Speaker, empl 
these words : 

A majority shall constitute a quorum to do business. That 
majority do not vote, but they must be here. If the majority is here 
the quorum is here. If we may compel the attendance of absent 
members what virtue is there in this provision unless it is to compel 
tnem to be here to constitute a quorum ? What is the constitutional 
provision for? What is it worth in the Constitution if, after having 
been exercised, it amounts to nothing at last and the man is not here? 
I wish to say by our legislative system our fathers understood that 
when this power was exercised the man was here, and all we have to 
do is to recognize that fact. 






ISSUE No. 1. 

Do you wish your Congress to be an 
orderly, deliberative assembly, or do 
you wish it to be a lawless mob ? 



THE GRAND OLD PARTY. 




IT IS TRUE TO THE FLAG. 



FEDERAL ELECTIONS. 



What the Situation Is and What the Republican 
House has Done to Cure it. 



A FAIR, HONEST LAW, FOR FAIR AND HONEST MEN. 



BUT A BAD LAW FOR THUGS, BALLOT-BOX-STUFFERS AND 
RASCALS GENERALLY. 



AND THAT IS WHY THEY KICK. 

In its National Platform, adopted at Chicago, June 21, 
1888, the Republican party proclaimed this doctrine : 

We reaffirm our unswerving- devotion * * * especially to the 
supreme and sovereign right of every lawful citizen, rich or poor, 
native or foreign-born, white or black, to cast one free ballot in 
Dublic elections, and have that ballot counted. We demand effective 
egislation to secure the integrity and purity of elections. 



Pe 



The Republican majority in Congress set promptly at 
work to redeem this pledge, and have passed a bill the 
merits of which are an issue in this campaign. 



WHERE CONGRESS'S AUTHORITY COMES FROM. 

(Section 4, Article 1, Constitution of the United States.) 

The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and 
Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature 
thereof ; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such 
regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators. 



HOW THE SUPREME COURT CONSTRUES THIS CLAUSE. 

(Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U. S., 371.) 

"Make or alter!" What is the plain meaning of these words? 
There is no declaration that the regulations shall be made either 
wholly by the State Legislatures or wholly by Congress. If Con- 

fress does not interfere, of course they may be made wholly by the 
tate ; but if it chooses to interfere, there is nothing in the words to 
prevent its doing so either wholly or partially. On the contrary, 
their necessary implication is that it may do either. It may either 
make the regulations or it may alter them. If it only alters, 
leaving, as manifest convenience requires, the general organization 
of the polls to the State, there results a necessary cooperation of 
the two governments in regulating the subject. But no repugnance 
in the system of regulations can arise, for the power of Congress 
over the subject is paramount. 



THE NATION IN A DREADFUL DILEMMA. 

(Ex Parte Yarborough, no L^. S., 651.) 

If the Government of the United States has within its constitu- 
tional domain no authority to provide against these evils (force and 



fraud), if the very sources of power m:iy be poisoned by corruption 

or controlled by violence and outrage without legal restraint, then, 
indeed, is the country in danger, and its best powers, its highest pur- 
poses, the hopes which it inspires, and the love which enshririfcs it, 
are at the nvjrcy of the combinations of those who respect no 
but brute force on the one hand, and unprincipled corruptioilistfl on 
the other. 

HENRY WATTERSONS CONFESSION. 



He Says There is No Such Thing as Elec- 

tion in the Colored DlaTRK 

(From the Louisville Courier-Journal.) 

I should be entitled to no respect or credit if 1 pretended that 
there is cither a fair poll or count of the vast overflow of black I 
in States where there is a negro majority, <>r that in the natu 
things present there can be.— Henky Wattekson, Leadil 
cratic Editor of the South. 



JUDGE CAMPBELL'S CONFESSION. 



He says a Resort to Fraud and Murder sh 
Avoided " Ef P< 

'From an address recently issu-d to the people of pi by 

Judge J. A. P. Campbell, now a member of the Supreme 

Court of that State. 
I know full well we can continue to govern this country. I have 

do fears at to that. But if we should have i<> n tgunsand 

Winchesters, or to fraud, that would be too undeir 

and it would be destructive of that liberty, equality and l'raterr. .: 
to us, and should be avoided it ; 



GENERAL SPINOLAS CONFESSION. 



He Says it is Costly and Bote t a 

Democrat in hie North, but They Have 

Thin v V Fixed BELOW THE LlKl . 

(From a speech in ( f the lion. 1'. I*. Spinola, Tammany 

I H iikk rat. 

With us it is a struggle to put a man in this House. Below M 
and Dixon's line it is an easy matter. One gentleman is declared to 
be the candidate, his neighbors rally round him, he is put to no ex. 
pense, he is called upon to perform no labor in the canvass, the 
ballots are printed, and they are deposited and he is elected. 



CONGRESSMAN HEMPHILL'S CONFESSION. 



He Takes a Solemn and Significant Oath as to the 
Thing They Won't Do. 

(From a speech in Congress by the Hon. J. J. Hemphill (Dem.), of 
South Carolina.) 

We know we must cither rule the South or leave it. Now, I swear 
we will not leave it ! 



SOUTHERN ELECTION LAWS. 



No Such Thing as Home Rule in the South. 



IN ORDER TO PERPETUATE DEMOCRATIC RULE THE I 
TORAL MACHINERY IS CENTRALIZED AND ( 
TROLLED BY A FEW POLITICIANS. 

^From a speech by the Hon. N. P. Haugen.) 

In none of the southern tier of States is the choice of elei : 
officers lodged in the community in which they are to serve. In 
Virginia the system is a perfect wheel with the Legislature at the 
crank. There never was a more perfect invention for self-perpetua- 
tion in office. In Maryland from the very beginning of colonial 






government down to the session of the last Legislature, the power of 
appointing local election boards was vested in the Sheriff of the 
county. But some of the counties elected Republican Sheriffs, and 
the late Democratic Legislature placed the power of appointing local 
election officers in the hands of the Governor. In Mississippi an 
electoral commission, consisting of the Governor, Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor and Secretary of State, forms the fountain-head from which 
flows ail authority to supervise and control elections. In Alabama 
this power is vested in certain county officers ; in South Carolina it is 
in the State, and likewise in Florida and North Carolina. In short, 
you may look all through the Southern States in vain for a discovera- 
ble trace of the home, town, or city government inherited from New 
England. The tendency is all the time in the opposite direction — to 
robthe local community of the privilege of controlling its own affairs. 



AND THIS IS WHAT THE SYSTEM PRODUCES. 

(From a speech in Congress by the Hon. L. E. McComas.) 

"Within a short period the treasuries of half the States in the South 
have been plundered by defaulting State treasurers: by Vincent, of 
Alabama ; by Polk, of Tennessee ; by Tate, of Kentucky ; by Burke, 
of Louisiana ; by Nolan, of Missouri ; by Hemmingway, of Missis- 
sippi, just convicted, and by Archer, of Maryland. Minority rule is 
inevitably corrupt rule. 



TAKE A LOOK AT THESE FIGURES. 



They Show How the Republican Vote in the South 
is Suppressed. 

(From speeches delivered in the present House.) 

In iS36 the total vote returned in Georgia for ten Congressmen was 
27,520 — less than were returned in any one of 164 Northern districts 
in that same election. Georgia's voting population is not less than 
350,000. The entire South Carolinian delegation sits here on this 
floor — seven members — with fewer votes behind them than were cast 
in the districts represented by Mr. Peters, of Kansas. Mr. Townsend, 
of Colorado, Mr. Snider, of Minnesota, or Mr. Dorsey, of Nebraska. 
Let us compare Mississippi and New Jersey, both Democratic States > 
both having in 1880 almost exactly the same number of inhabitants. 
In 1SS8 Mississippi cast 115,567 votes, New Jersey cast 303.741. Mis- 
sissippi's seven Congressmen sit here representing an average of 
16,459 votes cast and counted. New Jersey's seven Congressmen 
represent an average of 43,335 votes. In Mississippi there were 
males of voting age, in 1880,^0 the number of 108,254 whites and 
: : : ; -3 colored. These figures tell the story. — Mr. Lodge. 



In 1886 there were 27,430 votes cast for members of Congress in 
Georgia. There were 283,590 votes cast for members of Congress at 
the same election in Wisconsin. The 27,430 vctes in Georgia elected 
ten Congressmen. The 2S3.590 votes cast in Wisconsin elected nine 
Congressmen. The average vote of a Congressional district in Geor- 
gia was 2,743. I n Wisconsin it was 31,510. One vote cast in Georgia 
has the same influence upon national government, upon questions of 
taxation, internal improvements, control of corporations, pensions, 
etc., as n}£ votes cast in Wisconsin. In Georgia 1,604 votes elected 
my friend Mr. Crisp. The lowest vote cast in any one district in 
Wisconsin was in the district of my Democratic colleague, Mr. Brick- 
ner, which cast 25,916 votes. Comparing these two districts, the dis- 
trict in each State casting the lowest number of votes, we find that 
1,604 votes elect a Representative in Georgia, while it takes 25,916 to 
accomplish the same thing in Wisconsin. In other words, one vote 
in Georgia on this basis is equal to 16 votes in my colleague's Demo- 
cratic district in Wisconsin. — Mr. Haugen. 



In iS83 (it was much worse in 1886) a total vote of 595.07= in five 
Southern States elected thirty-eight members of the House, while in 
the States of New York and 'Connecticut it required 1,473,5--, votes 
to elect the same number. The atrocity of this outrage upon the 
ballot will appear in a still more vivid light when it is remembered 
that the enfranchisement of the colored race brought to the Electoral 
College in the South an acquisition of thirty-eight votes, which the 
Democracy have appropriated to swell their Congressional represen- 
tation, while the colored Republicans in most sections remain un- 
represented. — Mr. Brosils. 



WHAT THE NEW LAW IS. 



Democratic Lies about its Character Exploded. 



IT DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH LOCAL SYSTEMS AT ALL, 
BUT MERELY PROVIDES A WAY BY WHICH FK 
CAN BE DETECTED AND PUNISHED. 

(From the speech in Congress of the Hon. R. M. LaFol'ctte. 

What are the provisions of this bill ? 

It makes false registration a crime. 

It makes unlawful interference with registration, by vio- 
lence upon, or intimidation, or bribery by any person law- 
fully entitled to vote a crime. 

It makes wilfully keeping any false poll-list or know- 
ingly entering false names or false statements thereon a 
crime. 

It makes giving or accepting a bribe to induce a person 
to vote or refrain from voting a (rime. 

It requires the ballot-box to be placed in plain sight of 
the voters and in such a position as to enable the election 
officers, National and State, and the voter when Voting 
see that the ballot is in fact placed in the box. 

It makes the wilful rejection of legal votes, knowing 
them to be legal, a crime. 

It makes the wilful acceptance of illegal votes, knowing 
them to be illegal, a crime. 

It makes the fraudulent substitution i illot for 

another for the purpose of having lh 1, or for 

the purpose of having it counted for a ;iier than 

the voter intended, a crime. 

It makes wilfully placing ballots not lawfully cast in 
ballot-box among ballots lawfully < ^e of 

changing the result, a crime. 

It makes unlawfully removing ballots from a ballot- 
lawfully cast, for the purpose ol affecting the result of the 
election, a crime. 

It makes a wilfully false canvass of v !ie false 

certification and return of such vote a cril 

It makes it a crime for every oihcer cha uty 

under the law to wilfully neglect to perform such duty or 
to be guilty of any corrupt or fraudulent conduct or prac- 
tice in its execution. 

It makes false swearing, in matters pertaining to such 
Congressional election, perjury. 

It makes stealing the ballot-box or the ballots a fei 

And it provides just punishment, by fine or impri- 
ment, or both, for each of these crimes against a govern- 
ment by the people through manhood suffrage. 

That is this bill. There is not a section, line, or syllable 
in it besides this more than is necessary to enforce with 
certainty these provisions. 



THE GRAND OLD PARTY. 




IT IS TRUE TO THE FLAG. 



PROSPERITY ASSURED. 



THE McKINLEY BILL— ITS MOTIVE AND EFFECT. 



It Surrounds the Farmer with Sure Guarantees of 
Better Times. 



It Assures the Mechanic of More Work and High 

Wages. 



AND IT COLLECTS THE GREATER PART OF THE NATIONAL 

REVENUES FROM FOREIGNERS WHO SEEK AMERICAN 

MARKETS FOR THEIR WARES. 

In its National Platform of 1888 the Republican party- 
proclaimed this doctrine : 

We are uncompromisingly in favor of th2 American system of 
Protection. Its abandonment has always been followed by general 
disaster. The Republican party would effect all needed reduction of 
the National Revenue by repealing- the taxes on tobacco and the tax 
upon spirits used in the arts and for mechanical purposes, and by 
such a revision of the tariff laws as will tend to check imports of 
articles produced by our people. 



PROTECTION DISTRIBUTES WEALTH. 

(From Blaine's reply to Gladstone, January, 1890.) 

In no event can the growth of large fortunes be laid to 
the charge of the protective policy- Protection has proved 
a distributer of great sums of money ; not an agency for 
amassing it in the hands of a few. The benefit of Protec- 
tion goes first and last to the men who earn their bread in 
the sweat of their faces. 



BISMARCK SAYS PROTECTION SECURES PROSPERITY. 

(From a speech in the Reichstag, by Prince Bismarck, May 12, 1882.) 

The success of the United States in material develop- 
ment is the most illustrious of modern time. The Ameri- 
can nation has not only successfully borne and suppressed 
the most gigantic and expensive war of all history, but im- 
mediately afterward disbanded its army, found work for all 
its soldiers and marines, paid off most of its debt, given 
labor and homes to all the unemployed of Europe as fast as 
they could arrive within the territory, and still by a 
system of taxation so indirect as not to be 
perceived, much less felt. Because it is my 
deliberate judgment that the prosperity of 



America is mainly due to its system of pro- 
tective laws, I urge that Germany ha^ now reached 
that point where it is necessary to imitate the tariff system 
of the United States. 

WHO BELIEVE IN FREE TRADE. 

(From a speech in Congress by Thomas B. Reed.) 

On the face of the earth to-day there are but two sets of people 
who believe in Free Trade — the Democratic party and the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with Ireland suppressed. 
Russia, the granary of Europe, has abandoned Free Trade. France, 
Austria, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the Dominion of Canada, that 
child of Britain herself, have all joined the army of Protection. It is 
the instinct of humanity against the assumptions of the book m:n. 
It is the wisdom of the race against the wisdom of the few. 



the Mckinley eill. 



What it is, What it Seeks to Accompli Mow- 

it Will Affect the Revbni 

In accordance with its pledge the Republican party has 

passed what is called the McKinley bill, a com]-, 
which with the Mills lull reveals at once the economic dif- 
ferences between the two parties. .The Republican bill 

places a duty on wool, the Democratic bill places wool on 

the free-list The Republican bill places a protective duty 
on all animals, vegetables, bailey, hemp. I . ilax and 

all products of the soil ; upon cotton 

crockery, glassware, iron, steel, hanlv. cutlery. 

The Democratic bill pla< I titles on the free-list, 

leaves but a revenue duty on all animals, on barley 
tobacco ; moves toward a revenue duty on COtfc ens, 

crockery, glassware, iron, Steel, hardware and cutlery. 
The Republican bill pla< I on the free-list ; 

Democratic bill places the duty on su It 

will be seen that these measures are most 

unlike. It is not accident or chance. It i- 

bill favors the protection of American agriculture, manu- 
factures au4 Jabor, and the other bill opposes this poli< 



THE PROTECTIVE THEORY. 



It Maintains that the Cheapest Way to R 
Revenue is to Collect it from Fob 

(From a speech in Congress by the Hon. J. H. Walker . 

A protective tariff is not an "arbitrary restraint upon trade." 
As well say a bit and bridle, by which we guide, control, and de- 
velop to our use the power of the horse, is an arbitrary restriction on 
travel. 

Protection compels every European manufacturer to pay into the 
Treasury of the United States the money he has si^ed by not paying 
his workmen as much as American workman receive, before he is 
allowed to sell his goods in this country. 



THE CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS THE THEORY WORKS 
ALL RIGHT. 

(From a speech in the Canadian Parliament by Sir John A. 
Macdonald, Premier). 
Suppose the man has ioo acres on the Canadian side of the line and 
ioo acres of land on the American side of the line. Suppose he grows 
iooo bushels of barley on each of his farms. He takes his iooo 
American bushels to the American market and gets $i a bushel for it. 
He takes his iooo bushels of Canadian barley to the American mar- 
ket and gets but 85 cts. per bushel, because he has to pay 15 cts. duty 
for taking it across the line. How can it, in this case, be said tha't 
the consumer pays the duty ? It comes out of the pockets of the 
Canadian farmers. 



THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF. 



Where and How his Advantage is Secured by the 
Protective Policy. 



IKE CAUSES OF PRESENT DEPRESSION IN AGRICULTURAL 

INTERESTS LEND THE MEANS TAKEN IN THE 

MCKINLEY PILL TO REMOVE THEM. 

(From a speech in Congress by Mr. LaFollette.) 

The farmer is not suffering- to-day, as gentlemen upon the other 
side contend, "because the tariff has greatly enhanced the cost of 
what he buys." All that he buys is cheaper to-day than it has ever 
been. Since 18S0 barb wire has dropped from 10 to 4 cents a pound, 
wire nails from $6 per keg to $2.20, chains from 22 cents a pound to 12, 
zinc from 15 cents a pound to 10, tin-ware 50 per cent, window-glass 
25 per cent, kerosene 25 cents a gallon to 13, salt from $2.25 per barrel 
to Si. 25, crockery 25 per cent, calico from 7 cents to 5, worsted dress 
goods 25 per cent, ready-made clothing 30 to 50 per cent, boots and 
shoes 33^ per cent, and furniture 40 to 50 per cent. 

The farmer, I repeat, is not in distress to-day because 
of the high price of what he buys, but because of the 
low price of what he sells. 



AN ERA OF LOW PRICES. 

That this statement is undeniably true is proved by these 
facts: 

First. — A dollar will go further for a farmer to-day than at any 
other time since the war. Examine this table. It shows compara- 
tively the prices of farmers' implements since i860, and illustrates 
the operation of protection : 



Articles. 



1873 ; 1865 J i860 



One-horse steel plow, wood beam. . $2.75 

Two-horse steel plow, wood beam. . 12.00 

One-horse iron plow, wood beam. . . 2 .00 

Two-horse iron plow, wood beam. . 8.00 

Two-horse side hill or rev'sible plow 10 .00 

One potato digger 7.50 

Old-fashioned tooth-harrow 6.50 

One-horse cultivator 3 .50 

Two-horse corn cultivator 15 .00 

One-horse mowing machine 45 .00 

Two-horse mowing machine 50 .00 

Horse-rake, sulky 20.00 

Common hand-rake, horse 3.50 

Common iron garden rakes, lo-tooth 

steel, per dozen 37 . 50 

One-horse horse-power 25 .00 

Two-horse horse-power 35 .00 

Reaper 75 .00 

Binder 135-00 

Thrasher 400.00 

Bagger 25 .00 

Corn-sheller, one hole 6 . 

Fanning-mill 15 .00 

Common hoes, cast-steel socket, per 

dozen 3 . 50 

Common rakes, wood, per dozen — 2.00 

American grass scythes, per dozen.. 7.50 

American grain scythes, per dozen.. 9.50 

Patent scythes, sneaths, per dozen.. 4.50 

Ames 1 shovels, per dozen 9.50 

Ames' spades, per dozen 10. od 

Crow-bars, steel 06 

Crow-bars, iron ,,....• 05 



$3-5o 
15.00 

3.00 
10.50 
12.00 
12.00 
10.00 

5.00 

25 .00 
70.00 
75.00 
25.00 

5-oo 

5-75 

35.00 

50.00 

85.00 

300.00 

475.00 

25.00 

8.50 

20.00 

5-75 
2-75 

12. 00 1 

16.50 

9 50 

15.0a 
16.00 

.08 . 

.06, 



00 



$3 .00 
26.00 



20 . 00 

25.00 

20 . 00 

10.00 

35 -oo 

IO5.OO $J20.00 
OO IIO.OO I25.OO 

00 35.00' 40. co 
,50 8.00J 10.00 



16.00 
60.00 
80. oo 1 



00 120.00 140.00 

oo ; (*) (*) 



25 



50 15-00 , 

00 30.00 , 

50 8.00 . 

00 4.00 . 

,00 21.00! . 

00 26.00 . 

00 16.00 . 

00 20.50 , 

50 21 .OO . 



.15 



CHEAPER GOODS HERE THAN IN FREE TRADE COUNTRIES. 



Second. — A dollar will go further for a farmer in Protective America 
than it will in Free Trade England, as this table witnesses : 

Prices of Agricultural Implements in America and England. 



Articles. 



American 

Prices 
Chicago). 



One-horse steel plow 

Two-horse steel plow . 

Potato digger 

Two-horse mowing machine 

Horse rake 

Reaper 

Reaper and binder 



Prices in England. 



JohnG. J.&F. 
Rollins. Howard. 



$10.00 

2D. OO 
II .OO 
60.OO 
25.OO 



Hay tedder. 



130.00 
45.00 



$14.85 
25.29 

12.45 

75.00 

39-49 

i'9-55 



64.00 



Samuel- 
son & Co. 



$15.60 



13.20 
76.64 
38.40 
124.80 
249.60 
60.00 



$72.80 



Consequently, the trouble is NOT that Protection increases the 
American farmer's expenses. 



BUT THE TROUBLE IS RIGHT HERE. 






The Farmer Cannot Obtain Living Prices for Mis 
Own Products under Existing Conditions. 

Third.— Rut the American farmer'* market If l>«'injr 
usurped by foreign fjirin products. Importations of food 
rmve grown enormously under the tariff of 1883. Last year they 
amounted to more than $65,000,000, as this table si. 
Importations of Farm Products into the United States during 1889. 

Horses, sheep and cattle $3i9i 

Barley 7,691,763 

Other grain! 169,199 

Potato-starch and dextrine 230,000 

I 2,419,004 

Flax 2,060,664 

Hemp ^,047,927 

Hay 1,082,685 

Hops 1,100,408 

Meats and dairy products 1,769,892 

Flaxseed and seeds 41557.198 

Tobacco 8,603,168 

Potatoes, vegetables and beans 2,295,499 

Lumber 9,7^8,644 

Wool. . , , 17,4^2.758 

Total S'J5» I 3 2 i5 I 9 



THE REMEDY. 



How THE McKiNLEY Bill HAS Met THIS SlTUATl 
and has Assured the Farmer of Better Things. 

Republican legislation has provided three efficacious 
remedies for this state of things : 

First.— It has increased the duties on foreign 
farm products so as to shut olf importations. 

Second.— It has opened the way for reciprocal 
trade relations with South American coun- 
tries. 

Third— It has restored Silver to its money 
uses. 

THE FARMER'S SCHEDULE. 



Various organizations representing the farmers of the 
country have been in communication with the Republican 



leaders in this Congress. They have understood them- 
selves very well and have fully appreciated the situation. 
They have submitted drafts of the legislation in their judg- 
ment necessary to secure a revival of husbandry, and their 
just demands have been fully recognized. This table 
shows Avhat the McKinley bill has done lor 
the better protection of the farmer. It shows 
comparatively the importations of 1889, the late duties, and 
the duties under the McKinley bill : 



Horses and mules. 
Cattle 



Hogs 

Sheep 

Barley 

Buekwheat.. . 

Oats 

Oatmeal 

Butter 

Cheese 

Milk 

Beans 

Beans, peas, and mushrooms pre- 
pared ur preserved 

Peas : 

Green or dried 



Split 

In papers, cartons, or packages. 

Cabbages . . . 

g&gs 

Hay.. 

Hops 

Onions 

Plants, trees, shrubs, etc 

Potatoes 

Garden seeds, agricultural seeds. 

etc 

Vegetables : 

Prepared or preserved 

Pickles and sauces 

In their natural state 

Straw 

Apples : 

Green or ripe 

Dried or prepared in any 

manner 

Bacon and hams 

Beef, mutton and pork 

Poultry : 
> Live . ) 

Dressed ) 

Flax seed or linseed, poppy-seed 

and other oil seeds 

Leaf tobacco for cigar wrappers : 

Not stemmed ) 

Stemmed 5 

All other tobacco in leaf : 

Not stemmed 

Stemmed 

Cigars, Cigarettes, cheroot of all 
kinds 



Imported 



Late duty. 



$2,146,514.50 20 per cent.. 
542,764.71 ' 20 per cent. 



McKinley bill. 



4 
1,189 

7,678, 
25 
10 
55 
17, 

1,132 



,770.80 20 per cent.. .. 

,192.38 20 per cent 

,763.58 lOcts. per bush. 

,469.85 10 per cent 

,178.19 locts. per bush. 
,995.00 hi cent per lb .. 

,689.41 4cts. per lb 

>,l43 28 4cts. per lb 

i, 684.87 10 per cent 

,802 28 10 per cent 



S30 per head.* 
ver one year, 

$10 per head. 
Under one year, 

$2 per head. 
$1.50 per head. 
$1.50 per head 
30 cts. per bush. 
15 cts. per bush. 
15 cts. per bush. 
1 cent per lb. 
1 6 cts. per lb. 
6 cts. per lb. 
5 cts. per gal. 
40 cts. per bush. 



No data. 35 per cent 40 per cent. . 

10 per cent ,40 cts. per bush. 



Included 
with beans. 

52,738.00 



No data 
2,419,004 37 
1,082,685.50 
1,100,408.00 
No data. 
323,76,2.82 
321,120.26 



20 per cent ! 50 cts. per bush. 

Not provid'd for 1 1 ct. per lb. 

10 per cent j 3 cts. each. 

Free j 5 cts. per dozen. 

$2 per ton $4 per ton. 

8 cts. per lb ! 15 cts. per lb. 

10 per cent |40 cts. per bush. 

Free 20 per cent. 

15 cts. per bush. : 25 cts. per bush. 



187,448.69 20 per cent '40 per cent. 

I 

389,512.42 30 per cent 45 per cent. 

334, 9 v0. 71 35 per cent '45 per cent. 

437,377. 37 10 per cent ! 25 per cent. 

28,921.00 Free 30 percent 



No data. Free. 



No data. 

4 5, 899. i S L 
14,393.09; 



Free 

2 cts. per lb — 
1 ct. per lb . ... 



( 10 cts. per lb. 
\ 10 cts. per lb.. 



25 cts. per bush. 

2 cts. per lb. 
! 5 cts. per lb. 

2 cts. per lb. 

3 cts. per lb. 
cts per lb. 



154,866 26 

3,969,640.00 20 cts. per lb 30 cts. per bush. 

1,417,302.40 



I ( 75 cts. per lb.. 
j ( $1 per lb 



8,126,091.34 
476,679.25 



35 cts per Hj 

40 cts. per lb 



3,657.316.02 $2 50 per lb. and 
I 25 per cent, 



$2 per lb. 
$2.75 per lb. 

'35 cts. per lb. 
50 cts. per lb. 

$4.50 per lb. and 
' 25 per cent. 



* Provided that horses valued at over $150 shall pay an ad valorem dmty of 
) per cent. 



IT IS A MECHANICS BILL, TOO. 



Its Scope is National, its Effect Will be Felt in 

Every Industry. 



LABOR IS EVERYWHERE CONCERNED IN THE PROTECTIVE 

SYSTEM. — HOW IT IS OPERATING TO KEEP THE 

AMERICAN MECHANIC'S WAGES AT 

DECENT FIGURES. 

While guarding by every wise and lawful means the 
interests of the American farmer, the McKinley bill has 
skilfully maintained the conditions which have contributed 
so marvelously to the prosperity of the American mechanic 



in the past twenty years. Every industry in which for- 
eigners are enabled to compete with Americans in the 
American market by reason of their lower scales of wages 
has received that sort of attention which aims at equalizing 
the situation. The industrial question becomes every year 
more and more a question of labor. So soon as the work- 
men of this country are desirous of reducing their wages 
to the British level, American manufactures can be in all 
cases as cheap as British manufactures. The reason of the 
McKinley bill is found in the following figures. It is a 
bill which enables American manufacturers to do a profit- 
able business notwithstanding the dreadful disparity in the 
price of labor which is witnessed here. The figures 
from official sources, and they are both true and typical : 



Trade. 


America. 


England. 


France. 


Man 


$1000.00 

916.00 


$383 00 
163.90 

$536 90 

906.00 

$330 90 


| 




194 00 


Supplier 


$434 00 

906 00 


•!• ivintfH 


$784.00 


$998 «0 


Laborei oommoa : 

Ma 11 

Woman 


$300 00 

900 GO 

$600.00 

'216.00 


| 


$188 00 
75 50 




$968.90 

906 00 


Supplies 


906.00 


' • 




$57 90 


I'.lackiniths: 


$660.00 

Jim i*i 

$960 00 

•216 «M. 


$M H 

$515.90 

906 00 


|M h 




lit.* 






Supplies 


Ml N 


Me MM in^'H 


$184 00 


$309 90 


$900 90 


LOOOmotlYt nik'm. 


$1960.00 
300.00 

$1650. iKJ 

916. OU 


- 
189.40 


$516 00 


Woman 






$fff 60 

•_»<«; ... 




i I 






■ in/- 


$1334.00 


$439.40 

- 

$85:. oo 


$516 40 


l.«.( , .motive tlreim n 


BOO oo 






130 80 






Supplies 




906 00 


Ible mi lag! 


$834.00 




Tinsmiths: 


$650 00 

too. 00 

$850 00 

916 00 

$634.00 


$326 00 
130 00 


$973.00 


Woman 


Supplies 


906 00 


M.0 1 






Possible savings 


$249.00 




Tanners : 

Man 


$4Jt.M 

300 CO 

$750.00 

','16.00 

$534 00 


$350 00 
140.00 

$490.00 

906.00 


$347 00 
138.80 




. 

M ft) 






lo-sible savings 


$•263.00 




Weavers : 

Man 


$500.00 
300 00 

$800.00 

916 00 

$584 00 


$360 00 
140.00 

$490.00 

90600 

$'2*4.00 


$sm.oi 




10) UO 


Supplies 


- $350 00 






Possible savings 


$144 00 



OTHER PROTECTION MEASURES. 



Laws to Prevent Revenue Frauds and to < 
Tariff Inequalities. 

In perfecting their revenue system the Republicans have 
enacted a customs law to prevent undervaluations, to 



■ 



secure just and uniform appraisals on imported merchan- 
dise, and to assure the honest collection of the revenues. 

Under a construction given by the courts to the law of 
1883, worsteds have been admitted hitherto at lower rates 
of duty than other woolens. Other decisions had the same 
effect upon ribbons imported as trimmings. These in- 
equalities have been corrected. All woolens in the present 
law are woolens, and all ribbons are ribbons, and they all 
pay an equitable duty. 

TAXATION GREATLY REDUCED. 

The McKinley bill makes many changes in our tariff 
schedules. The free-list is greatly enlarged. Many duties 
are lowered, many raised. The effort has been in each 
case to do what is fair and right, according to the present 
condition of the trade. No man can tell precisely the 
degree in which its operation will affect the revenues. 
There can be no doubt that it will materially reduce them, 
probably in the sum of $65,000,000. Relatively the reduc- 
tion is ten per cent. Imports are placed on the free-list 
which last year paid a duty of §60,936, 536. The question 
involved in the other changes is how far reduced duties 
will stimulate importation, and how far increased duties 
will restrain importation. This question can be deter- 
mined only by a test, but if experience is a good teacher, 
Government revenues will fall off under the McKinley bill 
about $65,000,000. 

ISSUE No. 3. 

This Bill preserves in operation, 
adapting* it to the present state of 
trade, that revenue system which the 
greatest statesman of Europe de- 
clares himself constrained to imi- 
tate ; a system which has given ns a 
material development "the most il- 
lustrious of modern time" ; a system 
which first creates the finest market 
in the world and then controls it for 
our own principal enjoyment ; a sys- 
tem which has raised the American 
farmer to a dignity enjoyed by no 
other tiller of the soil, and the Ameri- 
can mechanic to a place in society 
and in affairs which is the envy of his 
brethren in every land. Are you 
ready to abandon this •system? Do 
you want to open your doors to the 
cheap, serf-wrought goods of other 
countries? Do you want to create 
here the very conditions that all our 
millions of foreign-born citizens have 
fled from? IF NOT, YOU MIST RE- 
TURN A KEPUBLKAX CONGRESS. 



THE GRAND OLD PARTY. 




IT IS TRUE TO THE FLAG. 



SILVER AT $1.20, 



Its Money USES ark FULLY RESTORED BY R.EPUBL1 

: [ON. 



ill!'. UNITED STAT] i:V RICH >3,000 

BY SILVER'S I 



AIL AMERICAN CEREALS HAVE GROWN IN VAL1 



AND, as USUAL, THE DEMOCRACY 

In its last National Platform tin- Republican party 

declared this doctrine : 

The Republican party is in favor <>f the use of both gold ami silver 
as money, and condemns the policy of the Democratic Administi i 

in its efforts to demonetize silver. 

In conformity with this pledge, the Republican ( 

has passed, against the unanimous opposition of Demo- 
cratic members, a silver bill, than which there has been no 

more useful and inspiring act since the resumption of specie 
payments. It provides, in brief, that tl: I v of the 

Treasury shall purcha ,000 ounces of silver per 

month, at the market price, and issue in payment therefor 
legal tender Treasury notes, redeemable in coin. This 
affords an annual increase in money of over Soo, 000,000. 
The Democratic Bland Act, under which the value of silver 
fell to the lowest figure it has ever reached, and the value 
of farm products to figures shockingly disastrous, afforded 
an annual increase of $24,000,000. But this money was of 
doubtful reputation. It was money that was good to-day 
and bad to-morrow. The money provided by the pn 
Republican Congress is as good, and must in all circum- 
stances remain as good, as any money the world has ever 
seen. 

Happily, the country has not had to wait for the benifi- 
cent results of this legislation. They came as quickly and 
as surely as blossoms under a May-day sun. Indeed, the 
very presence of a Republican President in the White 
House and a Republican Congress in the Capitol, exercised 
an inspiring influence upon values and upon all commerce. 
In the wake of Democratic rule had followed a prostration 
of industry and an accumulation of farm mortgages, but 
the election of 1888 was received by the country as the 
sure promise of better days. That these better days are 
now arrived is unerringly revealed in the figures shown in 
this table : 

16 



Changes in the Value of Silver. 



Dates. 


Feb. 28, 


1878 


Mar. i, 


1878 


Mar. 22, 


1878 


Mar. i, 


1879 


May 19, 
Mar. 4, 


188S 
1889 


Dec. 1, 
July 14, 


1889 
1890 


July 15, 


1890 


Aug. 13, 


1890 


Aug. 30, 


1890 



Significance. 



Date of passage of the 

Bland act 

Day after passage of the 

Bland act 

Three weeks after passage 

of the Bland act 

One year after passage of 

the Bland act 

Lowest price reached 
Inauguration of President 

Harrison 

Republican Congress met 
Passage of the new silver 

law 

Day after passage of new 

silver law 

New silver law went into 

effect 

About three weeks after 

the silver law went into 

effect 



PU- 


Equivalent 

value in 

U. S. Money. 


u 

> -£ 

a 
in >h 

£ 

^ 
"u C 


SS 


$1 .20'" 5 


$i.i 9 5 - 


54i§ 


I.20* 


1 .20 


54l 


i.iS 9 


1.20 


49* 


1.08 5 


1.08 5 


4x1 


.91*4 


, 9 ii 


42 T 9 5 

44§ 


•93 33 
•97" 


•93 3 
•96* 


49i 


i.o 7 9e 


1.08 


5o- 


1.09 6 


1. 10 


5i£ 


i.xo" 


*-*3 


54* 


i.i9« 


*.*9l 






- > 



$o.93° 5 
•93 15 

.91 M 

.8 3 93 

. 7 o 5 7 

.72 18 
•75™ 

.84" 
.85*9 

.92* 



RESULTS OF INCALCULABLE VALUE. 

The significance of this table is tremendous. The Demo- 
cratic Bland Act found silver at $1.20^. On the very next 
day it fell, and it kept falling steadily. Grover Cleveland, 
who could not even wait until he was inaugurated before he 
gave silver a blow, pounded it until he and his party forced 
it down to 91^ and the silver dollar to 70/0V The day 
after President Harrison was elected, silver began to re- 
vive, and when the Fifty-first Congress met it had climbed 
up to 96^. To-day it is worth $1 .20, and its monetary uses 
are fully restored. Was ever a clearer, sharper 
contrast drawn by hard fact between Repub- 
lican wisdom and competency and Demo- 
cratic folly and incapacity than is shown in 
these uncompromising figures ! 

Why, the value of our silver coin since Harrison's in- 
auguration has increased $90,238,000. 

But this is not all. Wheat, barley, oats, rye — all the 
products of the farm, have similarly grown in value. The 
wheat crop of 1889 amounted to 490,560,000 bushels, and 
its value was $342,491,707, an average of a little less than 
seventy cents a bushel. That same crop would 
sell at to-day's prices, which have increased 
to $1.02^ a bushel, for $154,526,400 more 
than was actually realized. This table shows the 
facts : 



Prices of American Cereals in Chicago per bushel. 



Date. 



Dec. 



July 14, 1890. 
Aug. 13,1890. 



Significance. 



Price Price 
j No. 2 No. 2 
Spring Yellow 
I Wheat Corn. 



Date of meeting- of 
Republican Congr's $0.79 

Date of passage of the I* 8g 
new silver law f 

Date new silver law 

went into effect 

Aug. 30, 1890.. Date of present sta- 
tistics 



•99 : 

r-oi l A 



$o. 3 iK 
.38 

: *-50K 

.48K 



Price 

No. 2 

White 

Choice 

Oats. 



Price No. 2 
Rye. 



$0.23 
•34 

.41 



I0.43 

^ales 
'( 48K bid. 

*.6 3 

•63 



* The exceptional advance, during the month, was partially due 
to the material lowering in the condition of the crops. Rye is a 
cereal not extensively cultivated in the United States ; the figures 
given under that heading are, consequently, only important as show- 
ing the general rapid advance in prices of farm products from De- 
cember 2d, 1889, to the present date. 

In the presence of such facts as these the Democracy 
must stand dumb or argue itself an ass. Its representa- 
tives in Congress voted bodily against the silver bill. They 
have been occupied ever since cursing themselves and their 
blind leaders ! 



ISSUE No. 4. 

Do you want good money and plen- 
ty of it, or bad money and not even 
enough of that to go around? 



18 



THE GRAND OLD PARTY, 




IT IS TRUE TO THE FLAG. 



LAWS TO HELP LABOR. 



Class Legislation Merely, but Measures of 
National Value. 



vt Has Been Done in Aid of Industrial Reform 
by this Congress. 



striking review of facts showing how carefully 
the interests of the poorer people have 
BEEN guarded against encroach- 
ments OF ALL KINDS. 

is was among the declarations which the Republican 
ational Convention of 1888 submitted to the people for 
heir approval : 

We declare our hostility to the introduction into this country of 
oreign contract labor and of Chinese labor, and favor such imme- 
liate legislation as will exclude such labor from our shores. 

It may fairly be said that the only direct assurance of 
egislation in accordance with what may be called il labor's 
lemands " which the Republican party has given, which it 
)ecame the duty of this Congress to pass, related to the 
prohibition of cheap and degraded labor. But in perform- 
ince the Grand Old Party has far exceeded its promises, 
(t does not recognize the existence of sections and classes 
imong the people, each to be coddled and wooed for elec- 
:ion purposes. The Republican party regards the people 
is a mass, itself of that mass, inspired by that mass, and 
moved by the will of its intelligent and patriotic majority, 
tt has not passed labor bills as class bills, but as measures 
vitally affecting the interests of the whole people. 

Every important piece of legislation passed by this House 
has been a " labor bill." The Elections law is immensely 
a labcr bill, for if the will of the poor and lowly voter — he 
who constitutes four-fifths of the people — can be thwarted 
by an arrogant aristocracy or an unscrupulous company of 
political bandits, free government is on a gallop to its 
grave ! The Tariff bill and the Silver bill, the Bankruptcy 
Act, the Land-grant forfeitures, the Shipping bills — all 
these, as we have seen, are moving toward the develop- 
ment of trade with the resistless force of so many Corliss 
engines. They are all " labor bills." 



LABOR REFORMS ACCOMPLISHED. 



But it is also true to say that no House of Representa- 
tives that has assembled in the National Capitol since 






Washington first set the machinery of government in motion 
has done so much as this House in response to the appeals 
of labor organizations for measures directly affecting the 
social and industrial reforms they have at heart. Demo- 
cratic Congresses have set year after year, all heedless of 
the cries of the workingmen, deaf, dumb and blind to any- 
thing else than their pet sophistry — Free Trade ! Their 
every effort has been to spread mortgages all over Ameri- 
can farming lands and to fasten chains upon American 
factories ! 

In one week of this session the Republican majority — 
of course against Democratic objection and obstruction, 
has passed no less than five labor bills, pure and simple — 
measures asked for by the labor societies of the land. 
Look at the list. 

i. An effective prohibition of alien contract labor. 

2. An effective eight-hour law, constituting eight hours a 
full day's work for all Government employes. 

3. An adjustment law, enabling claimants under the old 
eight-hour law to submit their cases to judicial arbitrament. 

4. A law prohibiting the employment of convict labor on 
Government works. 

5. A law prohibiting the use of the product of convict 
labor by the Government in any of its Departments. 



THE AMERICAN HOG. 



Congress Has Vindicated His Honor and Opened 
Foreign Ports to His TRIUMPHAL Entry. 
In addition to these measures, several others have been 
enacted dealing directly with the welfare of the farmer and 
the mechanic. The enumeration of them affords a striking 
proof of the Republican party's broad and general solicitude 
for the advantage of the whole country. 

1. The Meat Inspection bill, providing- for the inspection of all 
meats intended to be sent abroad, and prohibiting the exportation of 
•all adulterated articles of food or drink, and enabling- the President 
to prevent by proclamation the importation into this country of 
impure food products. This bill is intended to bring about, as it 
inevitably must, a better treatment of the American hog by the foreign 
nations that are now holding their ports hard against it, to their own 
injury and to ours. 

2. The Compound Lard bill, defining lard to be the article com- 
monly known as lard, made exclusively from the fresh fat of slaugh- 
tered swine, and defining compound lard to be any imitation of pure 
lard, and imposing upon it a tax sufficient to secure a proper regula- 
tion of its manufacture. 

3. A Bankruptcy law, providing, at the urgent request of both 
debtor and creditor, a uniform system of bankruptcy. This measure, 
in its relation to commerce, great and small, is almost as valuable as 
the Republican system of uniform banking. 

4. A law providing for the forfeiture of unearned land-grants. 

5. A law endowing agricultural colleges. 



ISSUE No. 5. 
Will the workingmeii aiul their or. 
ganizations stand by the party which 
keeps its promises and performs its 
duties to them, or will they prefer 
the party which violates its promises 
and doesn't see its duties ? 



THE GRAND OLD PARTY. 




IT IS TRUE TO THE FLAG. 



LET'S HAVE OUR OWN SHIPS. 



Republican Measures to Revive the American Mer- 
chant Marine. 



Why Waste S150. 000,000 a Year on Foreigners when 

WE CAN JUST AS WELL KEEP IT OURSELVES ? 

WHY CONTRIBUTE THESE MILLIONS TO THE BUILDING UP 
OF FOREIGN SHIPPING AND POSSIBLY HOSTILE 

I NAVIES, WHEN WE CAN JUST AS WELL 

USE THEM TO BUILD UP 
OUR OWN ? 

Pending in the House, having already passed the Senate, 

,are the two important measures known as the shipping 

'bills. Of their final passage by the House, probably at 

this session, certainly in the next, there can be no doubt. 

Their effect upon the revival of the American merchant 

marine, in the establishment of new lines of travel between 

our ports and those of South America, will assuredly be to 

, build up a large and important trade that has too long 

been neglected. 

The first of these bills provides for the payment to 

American built and American-owned vessels of more than 

500 tons register, engaged in the foreign trade, of certain 

small bounties according to the distances sailed, and under 

I certain conditions. It is estimated that the amount paid 

to vessels complying with the act would be about one-half 

the sum of their annual interest, insurance and depreciation 

accounts. Probably $3,000,000 will be required to meet 

the bounty demands in the first year after the bill becomes 

, a law and possibly as much as $8,000,000 when its stimulat- 

r ing influences have had their full effect. This bill has been 



asked for by the chambers of commerce of more than 
cities and by at least 1S00 other commercial societies. 



ENGLAND'S ENORMOUS SUBSIDIES. 



The second bill is in the interest of the foreign postal 
service, and provides a liberal rate of payment to American 
steamships carrying our foreign mails in case they shall be 
built according to certain naval specifications, in case they 
shall make at least 20 miles an hour, shall carry certain 
naval forces, and be subject to the call of the Government 
for naval service. 

Congress has been forcibly impressed with the fact that 
public sentiment is overwhelmingly in favor of these bills. 
They take the only means possible for the protection of an 
American carrying fleet against the subsidy laws of other 
nations. Many denials, inexplicable and foolish, have been 
made of the fact that England, Germany and France are 
to-day subsidizing their merchant marine. These denials 
are based on the principle that the character of a tran 
tion can be changed merely by changing its name. The 
cold fact, that can only be denied by a cold lie, is that in the 
last sixty years England has paid no less than $275,000,000 
in postal subsidies and bounties and that she now pa\ 
average of $3,750,000 per year. The United Stat. 
its vessels less than $100,000 — not enough to defray the 
expense of mail transportation. 



HONOR AND SAFETY AT STAKE. 



No nation ran hold a truly great position among [l 

temporaries without a foreign commerce, without tlyir 

flag on every sea and landing its products in every port. 
National pride, national interest, every prompting of 
patriotic sentiment, every dictate of commercial selfish 
requires that we should re-assume the place we once held 
among the maritime countries of the world. That place 
was acquired by protection. It was lost by free trade. 
The duration of our supremacy was coincident with the 
operation of our protective laws. The duration of our 
inferiority has been coincident with the operation of our 
present careless system. We found a thousand ad van t 
in supremacy when we held it. We are losing in national 
prestige and in money every day, and must lose so long as 
as we leave our shipping to compete unaided with the sub- 
sidized shipping of other nations. 



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LETS BRACE UP AND DO BETTER. 

(From President Harrison's last Annual Message.) 

There is nothing more justly humiliating to the national pride, and 
nothing more hurtful to the national prosperity than the inferiority 
of our merchant marine compared with that of other nations whose 
general resources, wealth, and sea-coast lines do not suggest any 
reason for their supremacy on the sea. It was not always so, and 
our people are agreed, I thinic, that it shall not continue to'be so. 



A DRAIN UPON NATIONAL RESOURCES. 

(From a special message of President Grant, March, • 

It is a national humiliation that we are now compelled to pay from 
twenty to thirty million dollars annually (exclusive of passage 
money, which we should share with other nations) to foreigner - 
doing the work which should be done by American vessels. American 
built, American owned, and American manned. 



WHY BE HELPLESS WHEN WE MIGHT BE STRONG ? 

(From a speech in Congress by Senator Frye.) 

Why should we fear to resort to bounties and subsidies? Why 
should we pay $150,000,000 a year to foreign ships for carrying our 
cargoes? Why should we carry our mails under a foreign flag? 
Why should every passenger who desires to sail from America 
abroad be compelled to sail under a foreign flag? Why should we, 
with our immense wealth and our great power, our ship-yards and 
mechanics, our enormous coast line, depend upon foreign nations to 
do all of our foreign carrying business for us ? Why should we per- 
mit them to pay subsidies, as England has for fifty years, and quietly 
surrender the possession of all this business ? Why yield to Spain 
and Germany and Italy and Holland and the Argentine Republic ? 



ISSUE No. 6. 

Are you in favor of a merchant 
marine, do you wish to see the Stars 
and Stripes restored to their old 
place on the high seas, or are you 
willing- to have America remain 
dependent on foreign ships for a 
foreign trade ? 



THE GRAND OLD PARTY 




IT IS TRUE TO THE FLAG. 



MORE PENSION& 



Thirty-Five Millions a Year Added to the Pe> 
ns Account, 



Republican Pledges to Veterans Rj 



OUT OF EVERY FIVE DOLLARS COL] 

i , two DOl i BE SOLDI! 

AND SAI1 <>RS who s wi'D THE I N 
AND TO Til KIR DEP1 
PAMILU 

The Republican party in its last National Platform pro- 
claimed this doctrine : 

The legislation of Congress should conform to the pledges made 
by a loyal people, and be so enlarged and extended as to provide 
against t he possibilty that any man who honorably wore the Federal 
Uniform shall becoflM the inmate of an alms-house or dependent 
upon private charity. 

In harmony with this recommendation, which the people 
indorsed, the Republican Congress and the Republican 
President have placed an additional annual sum of 
$35,000,000 to the credit of the pension fund for the benefit 
of 250,000 just claimants whose names have until now been 
absent from the rolls. The pensions of 50,000 men already 
there arc increased from $2 per month to $6. The pension 
list is enlarged to include a total of 750,000 beneficiaries, 
and a total of $150,000,000 per year is applied for their 
relief. For the coming year the tioverimieiit 
will pay two dollars out of every live col- 
lected for the maintenance of the infirm, 
maimed and dependent heroes who ottered 
their lives in its defence. History contains no 
instance of such a practical demonstration of gratitude on 
the part of a nation to its soldiers and sailors ! This was 
accomplished at every stage, as perhaps was only natural, 
in the face of a violent, bitter, relentless Democratic oppo- 
sition. The party which, in the eloquent words of George 
William Curtis, the orator who now prostitutes his eloquence 
to its service, "fell from power in a conspiracy against 
human rights and now sneaks back into power in a con- 
spiracy for plunder and spoil," — that party would naturally 
starve the heroes who escaped its bullets. That it has failed 
to do so is not the fault of its Congresses or its President. 



ISSUE No. 7. 

Do you wish the nation to keep its 
promises to the men who kept its 
flag' aloft, or would you have it leave 
them to the tender mercies of poor- 
houses and private charity ? 



MORE NEW STATES. 



The Dakotas, Montana and Washington Added to 
the Union. 



Idaho and Wyoming Well Along on their Way. 

Among the promises made by the Republicans in their 
National council was one in favor of the prompt admission 
of such Territories as were plainly ready to enter upon the 
duties and obligations of statehood. This promise was 
made at a time when the Dakotas, Montana and Washing- 
ton were knocking at the door of a Democratic Congress, 
and knocking in vain. The Republican Senate had voted 
to admit them, but the Democratic House, for no reason in 
the world but the utterly mean one that they were Repub- 
lican communities, had shown 'a plain intention to keep 
them and their lively, thriving affairs in the embarrass- 
ments of territorial government. The conduct of the 
Democratic Administration toward the far western terri- 
tories afforded a most reckless and indecent exhibition of 
partisanship. Everything that rulers could do to hinder 
and oppress the ruled was done in these territories. 
Settlers were robbed outright in many cases of the lands 
they had earned, and in many others they were subjected 
to big and little annoyances, the sum of which amounted 
to a national outrage. 

When the election of 1888 had occurred and a Republi- 
can President and House had been chosen, some of the 
Democratic members were wise enough to see that the 
time had come to stop this sort of business unless they 
wished to turn the entire West more than ever against their 
party. A few of them then reversed their positions and 
voted with the Republicans to admit the four new States. 
President Harrison took office in time to extend his wel- 
coming hand to the new States, and they are now admitted 
" on equal terms with the original thirteen." 

Two other Territories have been brought in by the pres- 
ent Congress — Wyoming and Idaho, of course, against a 
united Democratic opposition. Untaught by their earlier 
lesson and unmoved by treaty pledges and considerations 
of public duty, the Democracy stood stubbornly against 
their admission, this time pretending that the conditions 
imposed in their Constitutions upon Mormons were harsh. 
The Republican party does not consider the 
perpetuation of polygamy to be one of its 
missions and it fully endorsed the constitutional laws 
under which their disfranchisement was accomplished. 
Wyoming and Idaho came into the Union with masterful 
resources and a sterling population. The Nation is to be 
congratulated on their acquisition. 



MORE SHIPS FOR THE NAVY. 






The Republican Party Continues its Work of 
National Defense. 

The Republican party promised the people in i883 that 
it would proceed rapidly towards the rebuilding of the 
Navy and the construction of works for the protection of 
our harbors and great cities. Important steps have been 
taken in the redemption of this pledge. Among the naval 
appropriations passed by this Congress is one providing 
$23,000,000 for the construction of three large battle ships, 
one large cruiser, one small cruiser and one torpedo boat, 
adding six fine ships to the new navy. 

The sum of $4,232,935 has been appropriated for harbor 
defences and fortifications ; for the purchase of torpedoes, 
marine guns, mortar batteries and armaments ; for the 
•establishment of an American gun factory and for the 
building and repairing of important fortifications. 

These acts make a considerable progress in the line of 
national safety. 



SOME GENERAL LAWS. 



Relieving Pressure in the Supreme Court. — A Bi 

AT 1 UK LOl Il.KV. 

The act relieving the Supreme Court from the congestion 
which has almost paralyzed it, by the establishment of an 
intermediate court, is one of the most useful featnn 

Republican Legislation. The difficulties under which the 

Supreme Court have labored have amounted to a denial of 

justice. It is now able t«> proceed with its business in a 

rapid and orderly \ 

Important too, for the honor, not less than the welfare of 
the country, are the anti-lottery bills, which successfully 
take the United States Post-Offi< that 

infamous institution known as the Louisia 



THE GRAND OLD PARTY. 




IT IS TRUE TO THE FLAG. 



THE RECORD MADE UP. 



And There Never Was a Better One Since Con- 
gress First Began to Make History. 

Briefly, and all too briefly, this is the record of the Re- 
publican party in the House of Representatives during 
nine months of the two years in which it must perform its 
work. The history of this country, splendid as it is in the 
passage of safe, wise and helpful legislation, contains no 
example in times of peace of a session of Congress so re- 
markable for good. Its work, h^s been done quickly, 
quietly, resolutely, and in the face of an opposition which 
has been bitter and unscrupulous in an equal degree. 

A hundred issues might be presented as a result of the 
differences between the two parties developed during this 
session of Congress. These are the paramount ones : 

Shall Congress be a deliberative assembly 
wherein public measures may be properly considered, 
duly debated, and then, without waste of time, actually 
voted upon ; and wherein the American principle of 
" majority rule " shall be respected, or shall it be a 
mob, incompetent to act, powerless to carry out the pub- 
lic will, with a majority so overcome by its own rules that 
it is dependent upon the minority for its authority and 
power ? 

Shall Ave allow the Capitol to be filled up 
with men who obtain seats in Congress not as the re- 
sult of a free ballot and a fair count, but by the forci- 
ble suppression of franchise rights, by whole- 
sale frauds, by murder, arson, brutality and other crimes? 

Shall we abandon the policy of Protection, 
after all it has done for us, to enter upon a policy which 
we have tested many times to our immediate, unfailing and 
tremendous loss ? 

Shall we again rob ourselves of the rewards 
which have so richly come from the restoration of 
silver, and once more play into the hands of foreigners 
who have been for years buying our silver at low prices 
and using it against us in the grain markets of the world ? 

Shall we pay our money, $150,000,000 a year, to 
build up the merchant marine of England, to increase her 
strength upon the sea and her hold upon the foreign mar- 
kets of the world, when we might as well as not be paying 
it for our own advantage iu all of these re- 
spects? 



Shall we keep our plighted faith to the l 

men who offered their lives in defense of freedom and 
union and to the protection of whose families from want 
and. misery we gave our word as a nation ? 

These are the chief and the most sharply denned issues 
upon which the country is asked to cast a deciding ballot 
this fall. Every effort is being made to side-track them, 
to envelope them in clouds and to carry the people away 
from them here and there on false pretenses. The Dc 
crats start off in the next Congress, as usual, with thirty- 
one stolen Beats. They have that number of seats to 
their credit without a campaign. By infamous g< 
manders, especially in Ohio, Maryland, Kentucky and 

Indiana, they expect to steal twenty-one other 

seats. This gives them an immense advantage. To the 
Republicans it is an awful handicap. JBllt if the 

intelligent, thoughtful and patriotic people 

of the land will do their duty as citizens, if 
they will stand sturdily by their guns, if 
they will vote as they wish and think, the 
result will be a glorious Republican victorj 
and a prompt and happy completion of the 
work which President Harrison and this 
Congress have carried forward so wisHy and 
so well. 

i BR, 1S90. 









No man is good enough to 
govern another -without his 
consent. 

-ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 






There is not a single elec- 
tion precinct in all this broad 
land where a Democrat may 
not cast his vote in peace 
and safety and have it count- 
ed as cast. But there are 
hundreds of precincts in 
which it is as much as a 
man's life is worth to appear 
at the polls with a Repub- 
lican ballot in his hands. If 
this evil is not soon cured 
what will become of free 
government ? 

-TJ. S. GRANT. 

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